ASP.NET Bundles how to disable minification

Question

I have debug="true" in both my web.config(s), and I just don't want my bundles minified, but nothing I do seems to disable it. I've tried enableoptimisations=false, here is my code:

//Javascript
bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle("~/bundles/MainJS")
            .Include("~/Scripts/regular/lib/mvc/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js*")
            .Include("~/Scripts/regular/lib/mvc/jquery.validate*")
            .Include("~/Scripts/regular/lib/bootstrap.js")
            .IncludeDirectory("~/Scripts/regular/modules", "*.js", true)
            .IncludeDirectory("~/Scripts/regular/pages", "*.js", true)
            .IncludeDirectory("~/Scripts/regular/misc", "*.js", true));

//CSS
bundles.Add(new StyleBundle("~/bundles/MainCSS")
            .Include("~/Content/css/regular/lib/bootstrap.css*")
            .IncludeDirectory("~/Content/css/regular/modules", "*.css", true)
            .IncludeDirectory("~/Content/css/regular/pages", "*.css", true))

Answer 1

If you have debug="true" in web.config and are using Scripts/Styles.Render to reference the bundles in your pages, that should turn off both bundling and minification. BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = false will always turn off both bundling and minification as well (irrespective of the debug true/false flag).

Are you perhaps not using the Scripts/Styles.Render helpers? If you are directly rendering references to the bundle via BundleTable.Bundles.ResolveBundleUrl() you will always get the minified/bundled content.